Wiggin LLP, BE

With nearly 30 years’ experience, Ted is recognised as a leading expert in international and European copyright law. He assists clients on issues related to policy, litigation, compliance and commercial transactions. Current projects include advising clients, including in the audiovisual, video games, music and publishing sectors, on a range of compliance, enforcement, contentious and commercial issues related to the EU's recently enacted AI, Digital Services and Markets Acts as well as the AV Media Services, DSM Copyright and SatCabII Directives and national implementation of these directives; advising on the interface between Artificial Intelligence and copyright; managing a multi-jurisdictional litigation project for the publishing sector; and representing major music streamers in a case before the Belgian Constitutional Court, which has been referred to the CJEU. Ted joined Wiggin in January 2013 from the Motion Picture Association in Brussels, where he was the General Counsel for Europe. In 2011, Ted co-published a book on copyright law entitled 'Copyright in the Information Society: A Guide to National Implementation of the European Directive'. An update of that book was published in March 2019 with a third edition on the way. He has also written numerous articles on copyright issues including on recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Ted is admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, the Brussels Bar and is a solicitor in England and Wales.